lifetime body of work by an individual who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the field of heart failure.” The award is granted by the HFSA Executive Council. Anand along with a co-honoree were honoured at the HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2021.
Anand started his career as an Indian Rhodes Scholar and progressed to America’s leading cardiologist, and he holds a strong bond with PGI, Chandigarh, where he trained many physicians for several years before moving to the United States in the 1990s. Dr. Santokh Singh Anand, Anand’s distinguished father, was one of the founding members of the PGI, Chandigarh.
Inder Anand received the Rhodes Scholarship in 1966 following in his father’s footsteps and graduated from Oxford with a DPhil in cardiovascular physiology. Since then, he has been progressing in his career and there has been no looking back. Anand came back to India in 1976 and began working at the PGI. In 1991, he moved to Minneapolis to work at the VA Medical Center as a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Heart Failure Program. He lived there until he retired in 2015.
Anand was strongly interested in heart failure and studied high altitude medicine when he was in India, where he discovered two novel syndromes in individuals who live at greater altitudes. They are infantile sub-acute mountain sickness in Tibet and sub-acute adult mountain sickness in Indian troops stationed at over 20,000 feet altitude.
